He is in the hut now; he sits yonder in the shadow." The captain rose and looked into the shadow, but Umslopogaas was gone.
"Now this youth is fled," said the headman, "and yet none saw him fly! Perhaps he also is a wizard! Indeed, I have heard that now there are two of them upon the Ghost Mountain, and that they hunt there at night with the ghost-wolves, but I do not know if it is true." "Now I am minded to kill you," said the captain in wrath, "because you have suffered this youth to escape me.

Without doubt it is Umslopogaas, son of Mopo." "It is no fault of mine," said the headmen.

"These young men are wizards, who can pass hither and thither at will.

But I say this to you, captain of the king, if you will go on the Ghost Mountain, you must go there alone with your soldiers, for none in these parts dare to tread upon that mountain." "Yet I shall dare to-morrow," said the captain.

"We grow brave at the kraal of Chaka.